Joaquin Suarez

Joaquin Luis Miguel Suarez de Rondelo (18 August 1781-26 December 1868) was President of Uruguay from 1 March 1843 to 15 February 1852, serving as a Colorado Party of Uruguay member.

Biography
Joaquin Luis Miguel Suarez de Rondelo was born in Canelones, Uruguay on 18 August 1781, and he served in the Argentine War of Independence during the 1810s; he fought under Jose Gervasio Artigas. He also became politically active before and after Uruguayan independence, serving as President from 1843 to 1852 as a member of Fructuoso Rivera's Colorado Party of Uruguay. While he was the country's longest-ruling president, his rule was limited to Montevideo, as the rest of the country had been overrun by Manuel Oribe's Blancos amid the Uruguayan Civil War. He left office in 1852 and died in 1868.